Athletics Quotes

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

If you get a great wife who understands the demands of someone in athletics, I think that's important.

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

Athletics is a luxury.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

I can't compare family to athletics.

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over.

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.